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The NBA Finals kick off: Denver Nuggets host Miami Heat

The NBA Finals kick off: Denver Nuggets host Miami Heat

Tonight the expected ones start finals of the nba. Denver Nuggetschampion of the western conference, arrives as a wide favorite and in search of his first title. While, Miami Heatmonarch of Thiswill seek to continue giving surprises in these Playoffs. The duel of figures will be between the Serbian Nikola Jokic and the american Jimmy Butler.

Today’s match will be played at the ball center stadium of Denver from 9:30 p.m. (Argentina time) and will be televised by ESPN.

The series will continue in the house of the Nuggets on Sunday June 4th and then it will move to Miamito the Kaseya Center stadiumon Wednesday 7 and Friday 9 June.

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How the Nuggets and Heat got to the finals

Denver, favorite in this final, was the best team in the regular season with a record of 58 wins and 24 losses. Once in Playoffsbeat Minnesota Timberwolves (4-1) in the quarterfinals, to phoenix suns (4-2) in the semifinals and los angeles lakers (4-0) in the final of the West.

Miami finished in seventh place in the regular season of the This with a 44-38 campaign. In it play-in fell before atlanta hawksbut finally classified Playoffs by surpassing Chicago Bulls in the second and final game.

Then, already with a Jimmy Butler unstoppable, eliminated Milwaukee Bucks (4-1), new york knicks (4-2) and in the final to boston celtics (4-3).

Denver qualified for the first time in franchise history to a nba finalswith Michael Malone as a coach.

The details of each team

The Nuggets in addition to a notable Jokic, dominant on both boards, and author of eight “triple doubles” in the postseason, he has as his second star the fiery Canadian point guard Jamal Murray. The notable role players of him are the escort Kentavious Caldwell-Popethe power forward Aaron Gordon and the eave Michael Porter Juniorin addition to Bruce Brown.

Miami arrives worn out by the tough final against the current runner-up boston celticsin which they placed 3-0 and finally triumphed 4-3 when it could happen for the first time in history that a team, in this case the Celticswill manage to reverse the 0-3 for a 4-3.

The star player of the Heatis the guard-forward Jimmy Butlerfundamental in offense and defense throughout this postseason, with the complement of the pivot Bam Adebayowithout neglecting the forward Caleb Martin and the base gabe vincentundrafted players who are breaking it.

no one expected Miami in this final, but the coach’s team Erik Spölstrachampion in 2006, 2012 and 2013, arrived and will go in search of the hit.

In the regular season they played twice and both times they won the Nuggets. On December 30, 124-119 at the Ball Center and on February 13 at the Kaseya Center, 112-108.

Source: Ambito

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